January 15, 2008 - Janssen-Cilag International NV announced today IONSYS (fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system), a new needle-free system for the management of acute post-operative pain in a hospital setting, will become available in Germany, the U.K. and Ireland this week.

These countries represent the first markets to launch this product, and additional launches in other European countries are planned for the coming months.

January 15, 2008 - BeneChill Inc. today said it received CE approval for the commercial sale of the RhinoChill System, a battery-operated, noninvasive, portable, and easy-to-use medical device for rapid therapeutic patient cooling in European Union member countries.

January 15, 2008 – On March 7 and 8, Yale School of Medicine and Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI) will hold the Second Annual John R. Murren Memorial Symposium: “Advances in Thoracic Oncology” at The Red Rock Conference Center in Las Vegas.

The Yale School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

January 14, 2008 - Dominion Diagnostics LLC, a privately-held clinical testing laboratory, announced the release of Scientifically Accurate Medication Monitoring (SAMM), a unique clinical medication monitoring report that is said to enhance the practice of pain and addiction medicine, and allows physicians to better individualize treatment for patients in their care.

January 14, 2008 - Concuity today said Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL selected ClearContracts to improve the management of payment variances, denials, and revenue recovery and EOB Pro to retrieve, consolidate, and standardize electronic remittances from multiple payers into 835s.

January 14, 2008 - Sage Software Healthcare Inc. said today D’Souza and Associates, a billing and collection service for more than 50 ambulatory practices throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, selected Intergy by Sage for its customers’ physician practice management system.

The company had previously used another Sage Software product, The Medical Manager by Sage, since 1989.

January 14, 2008 – A new, hand-held creatinine monitoring system, Nova StatSensor Creatinine, was released last week by Nova Biomedical and enables simple, rapid, and accurate assessment of renal function by finger prick capillary blood sampling at the point of care.

Incorporating new Multi-Well test strip technology adapted from Nova’s hospital glucose monitoring system, Nova StatSensor Creatinine allows creatinine to be measured with a simple 30-second test in the emergency department, radiology, oncology, or other point-of-care areas where renal function must be assessed.

January 14, 2008 – The current global market for Optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems is currently around $200 million and growing at an annual rate of 34 percent and is expected to continue at this pace for the next several years, with revenues topping $800 million by 2012, according to Optical Coherence Tomography -- Technology, Markets and Applications: 2008-2012, a new market research

January 14, 2008 - MedPlus, the healthcare information technology subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics Inc. was awarded a contract to implement a clinical portal and information exchange for the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX), enabling physicians and other healthcare workers to securely collect, manage and share patient information in real time from Internet-enabled locations across the BHIX's eleven partner organizations.

January 14, 2008 - Constance D. Lehman, M.D., Ph.D., director of Radiology at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and professor of Radiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, will conduct “Breast MRI Analysis and Interpretation with CAD,” a live, one-hour CME online review of breast MRI cases on January 22, 2008 at 5:30 PM Pacific Time (8:30 PM Eastern Time).

Dr. Lehman is the author of some of the most significant studies of breast MRI published in the past two years.

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